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aud cult, ground about Funchal and most towns or villages in 
Mad. but everywhere sparingly. In PS. in fields beyond Ca- 
macha. Spr. chiefly. — Scentless erect branched from the base 
leafy often bushy 6-12 in. high altogether somewhat succulent, 
mostly in some degree thinly and loosely cobwebby or cottony- 
hairy, rarely quite bald. St. light gr. angular soft or fleshy. 
L. of a somewhat shining full gr. with often somewhat of a 
leaden hue, thickish, with flat not revolute margins, the lower 
attenuate downwards into a stalk, the upper broadly auriculate- 
amplexicanl. Heads erect or drooping 3-4 lines long, 2-2 1 
broad cylindric-oblong mostly entirely ravless, in small ter- 
minal and lateral cymes, short broad and thick in bud. Ca- 
lycle distinct, its scales short subequal and conspicuously black- 
tipped. Scales of inv. linear acuminate gr. with membranous 
w. edges smooth slightly bearded and subdenticulate at the 
black or discoloured tip. FI. y. discoidal, the outer a little irre- 
gularly 5-cleft or the outer segm. larger but scarcely ligulate, 
rarely with an outer single row of minutely revoluto-ligulate 
fits. (ft radiatus Ivoch 426, Bab., Willk. et Lange 1. c. ; S. den- 
ticulatus Nolte, non Mull. FI. Dan. t. 791; S. lividus ft denticu- 
latus DC. vi. 343, excl. syn. Mull.). Recept. naked smooth 
pustulate or mamillate. Ach. narrowly cylindric-oblong or el- 
liptic many-ribbed brown clothed with adpressed short silky- 
w. pubescence. Pappus sessile softly pilose pure w. copious 
3-4 times the length of ach. 
In BII. is a sheet ticketed by Solander ( propria manu) 
u Senecio viscosus Linn. Sp. pi. 1217. Mscr. Madeira.” It is 
the original authority for S. viscosus of Buch’s Mad. List 194. 
no. 261. It contains two spec. : one in fl. about 4 in. high is 
unquestionably S. vulgaris L. ; the other (not in fl.) 18 in. high 
is rather, by its scaly or furfuraceous pubescence, the shape of 
the young fl.-buds, and mode of grooving of the stem, S. syl- 
vaticus L. 
2. S. sylvaticus L. 
Strong-scented furfuraceo-pubescent or furry-tomentose and 
cobwebby subviscid ; st. erect straight virgate simple hard 
Jinn and stiff branched upwards only ; 1. subauriculato-semi- 
amplexicaul deeply sinuato-pinnatilobed or pinnatipartite, lobes 
subequal regular narro wish -oblong short remote distinct and 
parallel, coarsely toothed, the margins revolute, the lower at- 
tenuately stalked ; cymes normally ample many-fld., heads 
numerous crowded rather small conical imperfectly calyculate 
Bubglandular-puberulous ; calycle irregular inconspicuous very 
short of 3-5 minute adpressed unequal linear-setaceous scales 
